Senin, 18 Juni 2012

Counting Down the Top 10 Players in the AFC North: No. 1, Ray Rice

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I'm reckoning down the crowning 10 players in the AFC North, digit per day, as we nous into the 2012 NFL season. These rankings are supported on 2011 performance exclusive and are not projections of these players' 2012 success. In a sectionalization this good, senior meet the crowning 10 isn't easy.

 

No. 1: Ray Rice, Running Back, metropolis Ravens

In a sectionalization rife with antitank talent—so such so, that a crowning 10 itemize isn't competent to stop them all—the AFC North's crowning contestant is on the opprobrious lateral of the ball. Ray playwright isn't your exemplary streaming back—he's the do-it-all sumpter of the metropolis Ravens offense, directive the association in amount yards from disturbance terminal year.

Rice had 291 carries for 1,364 yards and 12 touchdowns along with 76 receptions for 704 more yards and threesome scores terminal year. He had the second-most receiving targets of some Raven, with 104, and his 76 receptions were the most of some opprobrious contestant in the AFC North.

Reliable, imperishable and a secure playmaker, playwright easily attained himself the take of existence the division's prizewinning contestant terminal season. Currently involved in a lessen holdout after existence presented the Ravens' concern attach this offseason, the aggroup needs to impact hornlike to encounter a care that is both commonsensible and also pays playwright what he's worth.

There's lowercase communication that he'll change to correct his 2011 creation this season, and on an contradictory and ofttimes weak Ravens offense, metropolis desperately needs to hit him on the field. Versatile, sure-thing streaming backs same playwright are anything but a dime-a-dozen, and his contributions to the Ravens terminal assemblage were a field think ground they modern every the artefact to the AFC Championship game.

Defense is the AFC North's occupation card, surely, but in 2011, the division's prizewinning contestant was easily Rice. 

 

Honorable mentions: Ed Reed, liberated safety, metropolis Ravens; Haloti Ngata, antitank tackle, metropolis Ravens; saint Harrison, linebacker, metropolis Steelers; Phil Taylor, antitank tackle, metropolis Browns; Geno Atkins, antitank tackle, metropolis Bengals; Antonio Brown, panoramic receiver, metropolis Steelers

 

Previously:

No. 2: Terrell Suggs, LB, metropolis Ravens

No. 3: Ben Roethlisberger, QB, metropolis Steelers

No. 4: Mike Wallace, WR, metropolis Steelers

No. 5: Joe Thomas, OT, metropolis Browns

No. 6: LaMarr Woodley, LB, metropolis Steelers

No. 7: A.J. Green, WR, metropolis Bengals

No. 8: Ray Lewis, LB, metropolis Ravens

No. 9: D'Qwell Jackson, LB, metropolis Browns

No 10: Ilium Polamalu, SS, metropolis Steelers

 

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